Square Enix and Remember Me creator announce Life Is Strange

French developer Dontnod has returned with a new episodic adventure game for both last gen and next gen consoles.

The end result may not have been entirely satisfying but last year’s Remember Me certainly wasn’t short of ambition, or attractive artwork, and neither is follow-up Life Is Strange.

The game is to be released episodically, like Telltale Game’s The Walking Dead series, on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Although there’s no indication of when it’ll be out.

The game will take place in the fictional American town of Arcadia Bay, Oregon and will involve the return of former student Max Caulfield after an absence of five years. Max and former friend Chloe then embark on a search for missing student Rachel Amber.

The game is described as a ‘compelling, story-driven experience where choice and consequence play a key role in how the narrative unfolds’ but the only real gameplay detail is that Max has the power to rewind time. Which sounds conceptually similar to the ability of Remember Me’s memory-altering main character.

Life Is Strange – this is Chloe, apparently

There’s unlikely to be any direct connection between the two games though as Life Is Strange is set in the modern day and, more importantly, Remember Me was published by Capcom rather than Square Enix.

We know nothing more about the game at the moment but we’re currently at the Gamescom expo in Germany and have an appointment on Friday for a ‘secret Square Enix game’, so hopefully we’ll learn more then.

‘We’re not only crafting the best game we possibly can, we also feel we’re providing the type of experience that perfectly fits today’s renewed taste for originality and diversity’, said Dontnod’s Jean-Max Moris.

‘When we first saw Life is Strange we immediately realised that Dontnod have created a unique experience, something special”, said Square Enix Europe’s Jon Brooke. ‘Everyone who’s seen the game has instantly fallen in love with its distinctive style and mood’.

Life Is Strange – Dontnod seem to get on very well with Japanese publishers